Prelims Map Based Questions - 8 - SSC CGL MCQ

Option (a) is the correct answer: Formosa Strait connects East China Sea with South China Sea.

Option (b) is correct: Ankara (Turkey)-Damascus (Syria)-Riyad (Saudi Arabia)-
Kuwait City (Kuwait)-Tehran (Iran).

Statement 3 is incorrect. River Tagus drains into the Atlantic ocean.

Option d is the correct: sequence starting from south to north.
Suez Canal

• The Suez Canal situated in Egypt is an artifi cial sea-level waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia.
• Its work started in 1859 Suez Canal Company and lasted till 1869. The canal offi  cially opened on 17 November 1869.
• The northern terminus of  Suez Canal is Port Said and the southern terminus is  Port Tewfi k at the city of Suez.

Statement 3 is incorrect. The Western Desert of Egypt is an area of the Sahara that lies west of the river Nile, up to the border of Libya and south of the Mediterranean Sea till the border of Sudan.

Taiwan Strait

• Recently, USA’s Arleigh Burke-class guidedmissile destroyer USS Milius passed through the Taiwan Strait.
  It is a 110-mile-wide channel that separates mainland China from the island of Taiwan.
• It is also known as the Formosa Strait or the Tai-hai (the Tai Sea).
• The strait borders the southeastern part of China and runs along the eastern part of China’s Fujian Province.
• Taiwan Strait connects South China Sea with the East China Sea while the Luzon Strait connects South China Sea with the Philippine Sea.
• South China Sea is a marginal sea, an arm of western Pacifi c Ocean in Southeast Asia.
• The People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam border the South China Sea.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

• Formerly known as the Millennium Dam, it is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia under construction since 2011.
• The dam is in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia, about 45 km (28 mi) east of the border with Sudan.

Option (c) is correct: Mali is a landlocked country.

The correct order is Aghil- Chang La- Baralacha La- Banihal.

Haiti

• Haiti is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
• It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
• Cuba is the nearest located country to Haiti after Dominican Republic.
• Haiti became the fi rst free black republic in the world and the fi rst independent state in the Caribbean in 1804.
• Its capital is Port-au-Prince.

South China Sea

• South China Sea is a marginal sea, an arm of western Pacific Ocean in Southeast Asia.
• The People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam border the South China Sea.
• Taiwan Strait connects South China Sea with the East China Sea while the Luzon Strait connects it with the Philippine Sea.
  It contains numerous shoals, reefs, atolls and islands like the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Scarborough Shoal, the Pratas Islands and the Macclesfi eld Bank.
• The sea carries tremendous strategic importance; one-third of the world’s shipping passes through it, carrying over $3 trillion in trade each year and an estimated 11 billion barrels of untapped oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
• There are a few hundred small islands in the SCS, a part of the Pacific Ocean. Some of the main ones are Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands and Scarborough Shoal — the bone of contention between China and the Philippines. China claims most of these islands as its own. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.

Option (c) is correct: Badrinath- Kedarnath- Gangotri- Yamunotri

Statement 3 and 4  are  incorrect. From African side four countries touch Red sea Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti

Option (b) is correct: Lake Ontario is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by St. Lawrence River.

Option (d) is the correct answer:The Pamir Knot is the junction of fi ve mountain ranges they are the Tien Shan, the Hindu Kush, the Kunlun, the Karakoram, and the Himalayan ranges.

All pairs are incorrectly matched

• NH 4: This road running from the capital city of Port Blair to Diglipur connecting all major towns of Ferrargunj, Baratang, Kadamtala, Rangat, Billy Ground, Nimbudera, Mayabunder and Diglipur.
• NH 6: The highway passes through the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Mizoram.
• NH 15: This highway starts from Baihata in Assam and terminates at Wakro in Arunachal Pradesh.